Anna-Varney Cantodea crafts albums that are distinct bodies of work. Any given Sopor Aeternus album (excluding compilations…like the one I’m about to list in this entry) has its own internal context. So the whole idea of a Sopor Aeternus playlist is either impossible or, optimistically, experimental.
Consider this my run at the experiement:
Soror
Always Within the Hour
Spellbound
At Sunset Through the Fields Aflame (version from The Spiral Sacrifice)
Anima I
Hades’ “Pluton”
The Sleeper (version from POETICA: All beauty sleeps)
Do You Know My Name? (version from Ich tote mich…)
Children of the Corn
Beautiful Thorn
Baptisma (1989 demo version)
Beautiful
Eldorado (version from POETICA: All beauty sleeps)
Day of the Dead
Abschied
End of hypothetical “first disc” and the beginning of a “second disc” (Why yes, I am pretentious, I highly recommend it if only for fun 😀 )
To walk behind the Rows
Harvest Moon (Cornflowers part II)
Anima II
Coffin Break
Leeches & Deception
Poison
The Conqueror Worm (version from Flowers in Formaldehyde)
Into The Night
Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
A Strange Thing to Say
Bitter Sweet
Consider This: The True Meaning of Love
Nightbreed
Tanz der Grausamkeit (version from Ich tote mich…)
Dead Souls
Helvetia Sexualis
Do You Know My Name? / What Has Happened While We Slept?
AilixChaerea 
I kind of want to put Sopoor Aeternus on shuffle now to see what happens.
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You know what’s funny? I only recently got my copy of the re-released 1989 Es reitan die Toten so schnell demos…and it clicks in a way. The demo version of Baptisma in particular. I knew it belonged in this playlist somewhere and then I saw the perfect place: between Beautiful Thorn and Beautiful! It makes a weird little alliterative collection of three B’s in a row…but musically, in terms of how they flow together…I find it perfect.
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More last minute changes: Abschied is now the end of “disc 1.” And Harvest Moon (Clornflowers II) after To walk behind the Rows.
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